As I'm sure most of you know, the coldfusionvideo.com sites have been down for almost two weeks. Frantic trouble tickets to tech support went ignored. Finally, I got the following message today:


Unfortunately as you may already be aware, the server hosting your website suffered a catastrophic failure of it's storage array. We believe this to be a failure of the RAID card in the server, which caused a cascading failure of the file system. This has resulted in the server being completely down, and we have thus far been unable to recover any data despite repeated attempts. We have also attempted to restore the server from our backups, but thus far have been unsuccessful at recovering in that way as well.


In other words, ther's nothing. No data, and no backups. All of our sites are gone.

I personally have *nothing* left. There's a possibility that the domain provider *may* recover something further down the line, but I won't hold my breath for it to happen. Nathan said that he'd be rebuilding his active sites, but Cold Fusion Video is gone for good.

just go back to whatever week you posted the review.

And whatever you do find that way, make an archival copy to keep on your own computer at home so that you won't be screwed if anything like this ever happens again. All of my reviews exist in four different forms: the html copies on the web, the html copies on my home computer, the word-processor files from their original composition, and ten or so huge three-ring binders full of printouts of the latter. If worst ever came to absolute worst, I could open up those binders, re-type everything, and re-convert to html. It would suck a whole lot, but I could do it.